[…] Studies at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. He received his M.A. in Latin American Literature at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He also attended the National War College in Washington, D.C. in 1995. Pierce speaks fluent Spanish, Turkish […] … Read MoreRoger Dwayne Pierce (1951- )
[…] bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English. One of her friends at Oberlin College was the famous civil rights and women’s rights leader, Mary Church Terrell. The two graduated in the same graduating class in 1884. At Oberlin, Gibbs was enrolled in the “gentlemen’s course” […] … Read MoreIda Alexander Gibbs Hunt (1862-1957)
[…] establish a wartime Alpha chapter, at Fort Benning, Georgia, that at one point comprised 65 men. Newsom married Alpha Kappa Alpha member Jane Maxine Emerson on June 17, 1946, and the couple had one daughter, Jacqueline Newsom Peters. He then returned to Lincoln University […] … Read MoreLionel Hodge Newsom (1919-1991)
[…] was shot and killed instantly during the gun battle that broke out between white Harper’s Ferry townsmen and the rebels. According to Mary Lawson Newby, her husband, Dangerfield Newby, Jr. often told the story of how his father died: “He was a slave boy […] … Read MoreDangerfield F. Newby (1815-1859)
[…] History and Culture, Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, D.C. Jacob Lawrence, the American Struggle, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, Washington, D.C. Photos from the Civil Rights Movement, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Portraits of African […] … Read MoreCOVID-19: Educational Resources During the Pandemic
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was created by the Arkansas Legislative Act of 1873. The University was established for the “convenience and well-being of the poorer classes” which meant African Americans in the state. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the … Read More … Read MoreUniversity of Arkansas Pine Bluff (1873- )
[…] Airman, was considered the best personal memoir written by a black military pilot of World War II. Charles Dryden died in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 24, 2008. He is survived by his wife, Mary Morgan Dryden, three sons from a previous marriage, and three stepchildren. … Read MoreCharles Walter Dryden (1920-2008)
[…] for Fisk University’s library, one of only several Carnegie Negro College Libraries opened in the United States. With encouragement from city librarian Mary Hannah Johnson and the local Negro Board of Trade, Nashville’s city council successfully obtained a second grant from Carnegie in 1912: […] … Read MoreNegro Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee (1916-1949)
[…] community based on Christian values. In 1960, Smith made The Crowning Experience, a film about the life of the African American educator Mary McLeod Bethune. The film, one of the first with a multiracial cast of equal billing, was credited with helping to integrate […] … Read MoreMuriel Burrell Smith (1923-1985)
[…] up again. The lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus wept—and Lazarus came […] … Read More(1851) Sojourner Truth “Ar’nt I a Woman?“
